1 bag a month challenge

lucy_lemon

I'd love to join in with this please! It's something I used to do every week for a while last winter but I have fallen out of the habit and NEED to restart. Considering I live in a one bedroom flat I have a horrendous amount of stuff. And tons of stuff at my parents house too!

Honey_Bear

Thanks for starting this thread CharleyBear. As a result of it, three more bags will be heading the CS tomorrow morning as soon as it opens. It's taken me eight months to get that done, and less than four hours after reading your first post. Brilliant!

ScarletRaven

I would like to join this challenge - beginning a major cleaning/tidying journey in my home as of tomorrow, so this will fit in wonderfully and help keep me motivated. Might even make it to 2 bags a month, we'll see

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At the moment I have to my knowledge at least three drawers in my kitchen that desperately need decluttering.I also have a great pal who is a brilliant de-clutterer.When ever she comes to stay she will go through all my 'junk' and say very firmly CS,rubbish tip,keep.and we have got rid of lots over the past two years .She does my decorating for me so when ever a room gets done it gets decluttered.She is very minimal istic and has no clutter at all in her house.But then her and her OH travel quite a bit and when they used to go on 6 month travelling trips she would rent her house out for 6 months at a time and all her personal posessions would be boxed up in her loft and locked away so she got so used to living with very little clutter its seems to have stuck with her.But I think a bag a month is doable for me and would suprise her no end if I managed the kitchen drawers at least without her help well done and a great idea for a new thread
JackieO xx

Uniscots97

I plan on getting started today. Might start with the kitchen drawers or the drawers in the living room.

Uniscots97

Well, didn't do either yesterday. Instead did a little in the spare room, and managed a carrier bag full to go into recycling and found half-insoles I'd bought and been looking for.


How's everyone else getting on?

Birdie85

I realised last night that it's nearing the middle of July and I hadn't got rid of anything yet! :eek:

So with that in mind, I went through one of our very cluttered kitchen cupboards and all of the drawers (thankfuklly we have a tiny kitchen!) and binned a black bag full of useless/broken junk and have a bag to send to the charity shop.

I really need to sort out the [score]spare[/score] junk room, it is an ongoing battle but I'm determined to be victorious! Tonight I plan to go through at least one box (I must have about 12 boxes/baskets overflowing with 'stuff') and I will be ruthless! I should just bin all of the boxes without even bothering to look in them first as I clearly don't need/use the stuff but I know I'll never be able to actually do that without having a panic attack that I'm binning something I *need*.

charleybear

Nah anyone can join -
there isn't a time limit really

eco

I've been decluttering for a good year now, where the junk came from I guess I'll never know, why I hoarded it is another thing I'll never know.

I plan on renting my house in the next 4 months and buying a barge to live on so I've really started to kick myself on the decluttering, 1 thing that works for me is having a list on the fridge that i write tip and charity things on, so when I get a few things on it, I don't forget anything.

It was hard to start challenging me to get rid of things, cos there' the thought it will come in 1 day, but I can't remember half the stuff that's gone, so clearly not worth keeping.

lucy_lemon

I have a bag of stuff to go to the charity shop tomorrow - mostly books - and I've put a couple of things aside for a friend who's moving into her first house next month. Also sold six items on ebay tonight, so feeling quite positive!